which graphics card?

[Bill Moran]

Charles Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> wrote:

> > Are you saying that it just means you can address more memory?
> 
> No, the CPU registers and the address bus can be wider (not just the  
> memory bus) with Intel EM64T or AMD64 architectures, and can get more  
> work done per clock for some tasks, but can also be slower for some  
> common tasks, too.
> 
> Again, if you have more than 4GB of RAM, using the CPU in native 64- 
> bit mode is probably the way to go; if you've got less, using the CPU  
> in 32-bit mode might very well work better, but it really depends  
> upon the type of processes you run.

In our experiments, we found that a 32-bit PAE kernel allowed us to
access all the memory we had in the machines, and performance was
better than a 64-bit kernel.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com